Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

Francis Quarles

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

Francis Quarles

In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.

Francis Quarles

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

Horace Walpole

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.

Horace

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death. [Lat., Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui Deorum Muneribus sapienter uti, Duramque callet pauperiem pati, Pejusque leto flagitium timet.]

Sourav Ganguly

I am very happy to be back in the team like any other player would be in a similar situation. I am only hoping that we perform well in Pakistan.

Sourav Ganguly

I am very happy to be back in side just like any other player in a similar situation.

Guillermo Coria

I am very happy. It was a very tough match. It was hot again. That's the kind of tournament I need to get back to my perfect shape.

I am very happy for Jessie because she played very well (on Tuesday).

Marcos Baghdatis

I am very touched. I am very happy.

I am not happy. I said we needed to sell six million in three years, and we sold one-third of that. We need to make some changes.

Adnan Pachachi

I am overwhelmed with happiness and congratulate the Iraqi people.

I am not happy with the sticker price that we got. Part of the problem with that is, we haven't been able to reconcile those numbers.

Hosea Ballou

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Horace

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

Guy de Maupassant

Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but a single time on some happy day, yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling that we have just rubbed elbows with happiness.

Gottfried Leibniz

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

Gillian Flynn

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

James Brown

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

James Freeman Clarke

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

James Buchanan

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

Iyanla Vanzant

It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.